Former WWE commentator opens up about plane ride from hell
One of the all-time great voices of WWE, Jim Ross, opens up about the famous “Plane Ride from Hell” after WWE Insurrextion incident in the newest season of the Dark Side of the Ring.
According to Vice’s Dark Side of the Ring (h/t seschoops), Ross spoke about what happened precisely on May 5th, 2002, when they were flying home a European tour which famously termed as “Plane Ride from Hell.”
Ross mentioned that there was a lack of respect on the flight, and after that brawl incident between Brock Lesnar and Mr. Perfect, they had to make changes to the locker room, and Ross also mentioned that they did very wrong by reacting like that. They had to rebuild the locker room again.
“There was just such a lack of respect on the flight,” said Ross, who at the time was WWE’s head of talent relations. “We made significant changes because of it. Guys lost their jobs, and it hurt people’s reputations. They acted so wrong. We couldn’t do business with people like that, and we rebuilt our locker room after that.”
He stated that he was quite upset about the Talent behaved that day. As a management, they made mistakes from the standpoint. They made fantastic arrangements with charted sports plane and all, but the wrong thing that occurred was the presence o an open bar that Ross still considers a mistake.
“The bottom line is I was very upset in how the talent conducted themselves,” We made mistakes from a management standpoint. We had wanted to make the trip as comfortable as possible, so we chartered a sports plane with first-class seats and upgraded the food. But the open bar was obviously a mistake. It went off the rails, with a small group of guys that just went crazy. It is still a black eye to be affiliated with the Plane Ride from Hell.”
During the flight incident, a flight attendant sued WWE for alleging sexual harassment by some wrestlers.
Former WWE superstar Rob Van Dam, Tommy Dreamer were also interviewed and told about the brawl that happened. They mentioned that the seat came off, and things also started to break.
This incident remains a blot for WWE and it was interesting that the producers of the series went so deep into this story.
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